Member-only story
If You Fight The Ebb, You’ll Never Get Back To The Flow
Some days we’re less inspired than others. It doesn’t have to mean anything.
I am in a motivated phase of my life. I’ve done a lot and been through a lot to get here. And I’m at the point where I enjoy the work I do, I enjoy the calm that organization brings me, and I enjoy exercising. My mindset and intentions are aligned, which means I can usually get a lot done in a day.
But for the past week, I was Just.Not.Feeling.It. I was drowning in an ocean of meh.
I have no idea what happened. It could be this time of year, January. Cold and dark. It could be that I’ve been pushing myself pretty hard on several work projects. It could be that we had a few family members staying with us last week. It could be the recent Full Moon in the sign of Leo. I can’t say for sure.
All I know is that my motivation, my inspiration, my get up & go, was flagging. The sound of my alarm barely registered in the morning as I turned it off and went back to sleep. I blew off some time I had allocated for writing and watched an episode of A Discovery of Witches on Sundance. I didn’t get out of my sweatpants for…awhile.
Like the tides, life is full of ebbs and flows. Periods of time when we are crashing forward like waves in…
